The normally quiet community of Brunswick, Ga., has been rocked by the fallout of the shooting death of a 25-year-old black man, Ahmaud Arbery, who was chased and shot by two white men while jogging in February, according to a viral video of the incident.
The coastal city has largely escaped major racial protests or riots, but outrage about Arbery’s death has sparked conversations about corruption in the criminal justice system and racism out into the open in an unprecedented way.
“It is the most horrifying display of hatred that I know personally I’ve ever seen, but this community has ever displayed,” said Glynn County Commissioner Allen Booker. “That’s been recorded.”
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